Sweden-related records in the Historical Archives of the National Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union
Our presentation of the Solidarity’s National Commission Historical Archives continues with records related to Sweden. In previous months we discussed materials related to Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Japan, Germany and Switzerland.
In the Historical Archives of the National Commission materials related to Sweden are to be found in the following fonds and collections (i.a.):
- Postcard collection of the National Commission’s Historical Archives,
- Collection of Serial and Independent Publications,
- Press Clippings on the Solidarity Trade Union, collected by Aleksandra Dąbrowska – Petersen from Copenhagen,
- Polish Radio Moderata in Sweden,
- National Coordinating Committee and the National Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union in Gdańsk.
Among the records of the National Coordinating Committee and the National Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union in Gdańsk that we have selected for this presentation you can find the speech delivered by Czesław Miłosz in the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 8 December 1980.
Inside the Collection of Press Clippings on the Solidarity Trade Union, assembled by Aleksandra Dąbrowska – Petersen from Copenhagen, there are a few issues of Information Bulletin (Polish: Biuletyn Informacyjny) published in Sweden by the Solidarity Activists Group (Polish: Grupa Działaczy Solidarności). In on of the issues there is an interview with Wojciech Lamentowicz on martial law in Poland, which was aired on Swedish television on 23 February 1982.
The Collection of Serial and Independent Publications includes a copy of Tadeusz Karolak’s volume of poetry “Na Fali,” with a “Solidarity Ballad” (Polish: Ballada o Solidarności) in it.
In the Postcard Collection of the National Commission’s Historical Archives we can find a postcard commemorating martial law, published in 1982 in Sweden.
The Polish Radio Moderata in Sweden contains a leaflet of the Polish Emigration Council in Sweden (Polish: Rada Uchodźstwa Polskiego w Szecji), presenting Poland’s emblem and an emblem of the Polish underground during World War II – so-called Kotwica (anchor), later adopted by Polish anti-communist organizations.
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If you are interested in the attached documents and in our other archival materials in the Archives of the National Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union, please contact us first by email: .
The fonds list is available online at „Szukaj w Archiwach” – “Search the Archives” (https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/web/archiwum-komisji-krajowej-nszz-solidarnosc/zespoly).
/Łukasz Grochowski, the Archives of the National Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union,
Iwona Flis, Stanisław Flis Foundation “Pomerania Archives”/
